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Lot 480

A Rare 6-Bore Flintlock Saddle Carbine
By I. Cosnes (sic), Late 17th Century

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

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A Rare 6-Bore Flintlock Saddle Carbine
By I. Cosnes (sic), Late 17th Century

With three-stage barrel with iron fore-sight on a circular mount set back from the muzzle, border engraved octagonal breech becoming polygonal, signed along the top flat and decorated with strawberry foliage at the rear, tang en suite, signed border engraved rounded lock decorated with strawberry foliage, rounded cock en suite with foliate engraved dog-catch for the half-cock position, moulded artificially figured ash full stock (minor old splits) with apron around the barrel tang, brass mounts comprising scrolled side-plate, butt-plate with rounded heel and long slender tang along the comb, trigger-guard with pointed finial, and turned baluster ramrod-pipes, vacant iron escutcheon, iron saddle-bar and ring, scroll trigger, and later artificially figured ramrod with brass tip, London proof marks and indistinct barrelsmith's mark
57.9 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The maker is either John Cosnes (also Cosens, Cosins, Cozens and Cussens) or his brother Thomas. The former was free of the Gunmakers Company in 1662 and was Gunmaker-in-Ordinary for Charles II. In 1670 he was fined for filing barrels after proof, and was Contractor to Ordnance between 1667 and 1680. The latter was apprenticed to John Silke and turned over to his brother in 1664. Free of the Gunmakers Company in 1673, the last reference to him is in 1673

For a description of the twenty-one are separate positions of the drill which could be performed on horseback with a carbine attached to a horseman's cross belt see Thomas Kenn, Military and Maritime Discipline, 1672, chapters V and VI

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